The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1887-09-01
CHINESE MINISTER BACK.
HE COMES BACK TO AMERICAN IN I'M
PROVED HEALTH.

He Says That He Found No Place Abroad
That ID Preferable to Washington.
Rudeness of the People When Mrs.
Cleveland is to BE Seen in Public.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 31.-The Chinese
minister is back from his European trip,
much improved in health and more than
ever delighted with Washington He says
he did not find anything while abroad which
he thought preferable to Washington, and
he comes back we'll contented with his pros
poets for three years stay here. He may
also have to go briefly to Peru, to which he
is also the accredited minister, but that will
not be before next year. He is more at
tached to Washington than before, and
would probably prefer it to anything except
his own native land They all look forward
with pleasure to their return home.
His stay here will be about five years.
That of many of the attaches is greater than
this length of time Mr. Tam, who accom-
panied the minister to Spain, had been in
Cuba as representative of his government
for eight years. He was permitted to re-
turn home when he had finished his tour of
people who are now with the legation have
been away from home and their families
about the same time Most of them are
family men, and if you ask some fellow who
is prancing about with the ladies in society,
about his own family relations at home, he
will probably tell you that he has a wife and
half q dozen children. Asked why they
don't bring their families with them, they
1lyr f.,Ii
saying that their ladies are very timid,
and would not like so long an ocean voy-
age
The minister comes back much improved.
He is as brown as a native American, just
from the seaside, and has added several
pounds to his avoirdupois since he left Not
that he needed them particularly, for he
was a we'll developed man, weighing prob
ably 175 pounds, but his cheeks are fuller,
and he has more the appearance of perfect
health than when he went away. He brings
with him some fine gems captured during
his visit to Paris, for he is immensely
wealthy and can crafty his taste in that
direction with the greatest ease. One Of
these is a fine emerald which decorated the
crown of Napoleon 1t is large and of
deep color and is surrounded with double
row Of fine diamonds, whose clear brilliancy
set Off the central gem to perfection. There
are between forty and fifty Of these dia-
monds.
In addition to these, each of the heavy
gold arms or clasps which hold the immense
emerald in place, is surmounted at its point
with tiny diamond, making a unique and
valuable ornament. And how do you sup
pose he wears this peculiar shaped and costly
decoration? Why upon his cap. He wears
on all occasions a black skull cap, sur
mounted with red button, an insignia of
rank. On the front Of the cap he wears this
costly and historical ornament. He takes a
good deal of pleasure in showing it to his
friends, and explaining its history, for it is
of course most rare and valuable article,
and it is admired by all who have seen it. l
demonstrated with him for wearing 80 rare
and valuable a gem, in a way that would
make it so easy for him to be robbed Of it.
"It would be so easy for some one to slip up
behind you," said, land snatch the cap
from your head and get away with it." He
looked worried at this, and asked il
thought there would be any danger In his
wearing the ornament to the theater He
remarked that he had been pretty careful
about it while he was travelling abroad, but
he thought the people of this country were
too honest to do anything like that.
1t was very painful to undeceive him, but
it seemed absolutely necessary to explain to
him that there were a fow people even in
this fine country who might be guilty under
pressing circumstances of snatching mans
cap from his head from behind and running
away with it, or even Of cracking him over
the head to get it, where the temptation was
so great as in this case. Another curious
aud valuable ornament which the minister
wears is huge thumb ring, set with large
emerald, and having row Of diamonds rum
ming around the entire circumference Of the
ring. The material of which the ring is
made is some fragment Of wood from his
own country, very choice and COSTLY as
much above sandal wood as sandal wood is
beyond pine. 1t is cut out in the form of
ring about one inch in width, and just long
enough to fit on his long, tapering thumb.
A row of very brilliant diamonds extends
around this, running along the center of
the ring and clear around the thumb, which
it incases. Then at the top is large EN-
erald, not so large as that upon his cap, but
very large one, surrounded with line of
smaller diamonds.